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SUPPLEMENT. 



" Fungi, ^garicus Hudsom Pers., syn. A. pilosus 

 Sow., on the leaves ; SphaeYia ^quifolii Fr., and 

 S. insculpta Fr., on the bark ; and S. /'licis Sckl., 

 S. zlicincola, Stegia /'licis Fr., syn. Xyloma con- 

 cavum Grev., and Ceuthospora phacidioides Grev., 

 on the leaves. M. J. B." 



Page 509. line 31. from the bottom, insert : "In 



Suffolk, at Stutton Rectory, there is a holly 



90 years planted, with a trunk 3 ft. 9 in. in 



diameter." 



I. baledrica. 516., add to the list of Engravings: 



" and our fig. 2426." 

 519., before App. i., insert: 



" i I. magelldnica Lodd. Cat., 1836. There are 

 plants of this species in the arboretum of Messrs. 

 Loddiges, and in the Horticultural Society's 



Garden." \ 2426 



Prinos deciduus. 521. 1. 6., add to the end of the paragraph : " SphaeVia 

 friabilis Pers. is found on the bark ; and Rhytisma zlicicola Fr., and 

 R. velatum Fr., on the leaves. M. J. B." 

 P. verticilldtus. 521. 1.7. from the 

 bottom, after the full 

 stop, add : " Rhytisma 

 Prini Fr. is found on 

 this species." 



P. gldber. 522, in the line 

 headed " Engraving," for 

 " The figure," &c., substi- 

 tute " and our/g. 2428." 

 P. coridceus. 523., to the para- 

 graph headed " Engrav- 

 ings," add : " and our jtfg. 

 2427." 2428 



2429 



Zizypkus sinensis. 525. last two lines, for " and we have never seen it," read 

 " there is a plant in the Horticultural Society's Garden." 



Z. Jujuba. 527., add to the paragraph : " Fig. 

 2429. shows the leaves, fruit of different 

 shapes, and stones (the last of the 



natural size), of Zizyphus Jujuba, taken 



from Hooker's Journal of Botany, 



2d sen, t. 140. In the account of 



this species given in the Journal of 



Botany, vol. i. p. 320., by M. L. Bouton, 



Vice-Secretary of the Natural History 



Society of the Mauritius, it is stated, 



that the Zfzyphus Jujuba^ which is 



known in the island by the name of 



Masson, grows there to the height of 



about 25ft. or 30ft. There are a 



number of different varieties, which 



he divides into two sections, viz. 



those with flesh adhering to the nut, 



and those with flesh that does not adhere. The colour of the fruit, 



when ripe, is a greenish yellow in some varieties, and a reddish brown 



in others. Z. mauritiana and Z. rotundata Dec. Prod., M. Bouton 



considers to be only two of the varieties which he has described. The 



different forms of the fruit are shown in the engraving from which our 



figure is copied; as are the two forms of the stones, or nuts, which are 



